Tiffany Stone / Opalized
Fluorite / Bertrandite
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Opal Fluorite rough 6/23 - 05 -
One very large select high grade opalized piece showing
purple and brecciated core running through the stone. The
core of this one could be extremely nice. Only some of the
outer shell has been broken off - you'll have to cut it to
know for sure.
6 lbs, 7 ounces
Now listed as a 7 day Auction starting at $0.99 on eBay
I
went digging and look what I found! It's been a while since
I've had some good Tiffany Stone to offer, especially in
bulk. I hope you enjoy them. Get them while they last.
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Rare Rough Opalized Fluorite!
This material is one of the most scarce,
beautiful and unusual stones in the world, this stone only comes from
one very small area of beryllium mines in the Utah west desert where
they mine (the 4th lightest element) beryllium for use in missile nose
cones and many other high-tech metallurgical uses. It is not open to
the public for collecting and very little of this material sees
anything other than the ore crusher to extract the about 1% to 2%
beryllium contained in the opal tuff. Try to find this exquisite
gemstone and you'll see that it's not only very rare, it is
very scarce. It is a soft to hard opalized stone that forms in
very small to 100+ pound "nodules", composed of predominantly
opalized fluorite (blues, purples and whites), often with many
other minerals such as quartz, dolomite, rhodonite, manganese,
beryllium and other surprises. It often has a "crackled" appearance
and is sometimes called "Tiffany Stone", "Bertrandite" "Purple Opal"
or "Ice Cream Opalite". I call it Opal-Fluorite.
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